18 Verbs to Use for the Word idiosyncrasies

"They can also," he says, "be blended and arranged to suit the gastric idiosyncrasies of the individual consumer.

He had caught the Major's little idiosyncrasies of speech, accent, and intonation and his pompous courtliness to perfectionexaggerating all to the purpose of the stage.

What we know now about the issues that arose between the different members of the Cabinet family comes to us chiefly through the Diary of Welles, who has described with apparent impartiality the idiosyncrasies of each of the secretaries and whose references to the tact, patience, and gracefully exercised will-power of the President are fully in line with the best estimates of Lincoln's character.

" At first Patty had grown indignant at Miss Daggett's conversation, but soon she felt rather amused at what was doubtless the idiosyncrasy of an eccentric mind, and she answered: "I will promise not to come to you for advice or warning, no matter how much I may need assistance.

Besides, Cupido was the freak of the city, the sharp-tongued but irresponsible practical joker, who was forgiven everything in advance, and could enjoy his idiosyncrasies and speak his mind about people without starting a riot against him.

The term "character" likewise expresses this idiosyncrasy of will and intelligence.

Men and women, intelligent and prudent in all other directions, seem to exercise no forethought here, but hand down their individual and family idiosyncrasies in the most reckless mariner.

He not only knew the people, but he knew all about them, their personal idiosyncrasies, their rivalries and jealousies.

Half an hour ago, solemn, and still, and wild, as nature rested, unpolluted, undefaced, unmarked by mansleeping in the light of the moon, all was tranquillity; the civilized man lost his idiosyncrasy in its contemplationforgot nation, pursuits, creedhe felt that he was Nature's child, and adored the God of Nature.

"Well, as I get it, the lawyer has concluded to advance the American idiosyncrasy known as reform.

After the early days of keen anxiety regarding our invalid had passed, we began to study our fellow guests individually and to note their idiosyncrasies.

They rarely obtrude their idiosyncrasies on their readers.

They would not permit the idiosyncrasy of a personal or individual point of view: hence they were incapable of understanding lyricism, and they preferred those forms of writing which set themselves to express the ideas and feelings that most men may be supposed to have in common.

A week went by, and every moment of the time Saul was elate and busy, providing for me in every possible way, devising comforts that exceeded my imagination, remembering every idiosyncrasy that I had given expression to in his hearing.

" "Yes: one presumes we all do think that..." "But no sooner does one get firmly established in that particular phase of self-complacence than along comes Life, grinning like a gamin, and kicks over our pretty house of cardsshows us up to ourselves by revealing our pet, exclusive idiosyncrasies as simple infirmities all mortal flesh is heir to.

The theory about the independence of Finland, as a separate realm, which was worked out for the purpose of devising "the means of safeguarding its idiosyncrasies," is far from proving that "Finland aims at separation from Russia."

You begin a new acquaintanceship with perhaps not very charitable prepossessions; these later a deeper and better knowledge removes, and where you have before seen an idiosyncrasy you come to love a character.

If one reads Lamb's earlier essays and prose pieces one can see the process at workwatch him consciously imitating Fuller, or Burton, or Browne, mirroring their idiosyncrasies, making their quaintnesses and graces his own.

18 Verbs to Use for the Word  idiosyncrasies